Lesser-Known Figures
This son of Alma the Younger abandoned his ministry among the Zoramites to pursue the harlot Isabel (Alma 39).
Who is Corianton?
After Moroni rent his coat, he wrote on it 'In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children' and raised it as this (Alma 46:12-13).
What is the title of liberty?
Mosiah 3:19: 'The natural man is this to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit.'
What is an enemy?
Mormon wrote this short book to join the small plates of Nephi to his abridgment of the large plates.
What are the Words of Mormon?
'I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded' (1 Nephi 3:7).
Who is Nephi?
This Nephite, a former adversary of King Noah, was slain with a sword by Nehor after withstanding him (Alma 1:7-9).
Who is Gideon?
In Alma 51, the freemen were opposed by this faction who sought to alter the law and establish a king over the Nephites.
Who are the king-men?
In Alma 32, Alma compares the word to this, which must be nourished with great care so that it may take root and grow.
What is a seed?
The 116 lost manuscript pages were a translation of this book, which was replaced by the small plates of Nephi.
What is the Book of Lehi?
'O be wise; what can I say more?' (Jacob 6:12).
Who is Jacob?
This Nephite captain slew Amalickiah in his tent, and later cast a javelin into Ammoron's heart before being slain by Ammoron's servants (Alma 51, 62).
Who is Teancum?
These dissenters, dwelling in Antionum, worshiped on a 'holy stand' called Rameumptom (Alma 31).
Who are the Zoramites?
In 2 Nephi 2:11, Lehi taught that, without this 'in all things', righteousness could not be brought to pass.
What is opposition?
The brass plates held the five books of Moses and a record of the Jews down to the reign of this king, whose reign opened with Jeremiah prophesying (1 Nephi 5:12-13).
Who is Zedekiah?
'When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God' (Mosiah 2:17).
Who is King Benjamin?
The last writer on the small plates, in the Book of Omni, he had no seed and delivered the plates to King Benjamin (Omni 1:25, 30).
Who is Amaleki?
This Nephite dissenter had a Lamanite king killed by his servants, then married the queen and became king himself (Alma 47).
Who is Amalickiah?
Alma 7:12: Christ would take upon himself pains, afflictions, temptations and sicknesses 'that his bowels may be filled with' this, so that he may know how to succor his people.
What is mercy?
3 Nephi 1:1 says the sign of Christ's birth came about this many years after Lehi left Jerusalem.
What is six hundred years?
'Wickedness never was happiness' (Alma 41:10).
Who is Alma (the Younger)?
This man murdered the chief judge Pahoran the younger and was himself slain by a servant of Helaman (Helaman 1-2).
Who is Kishkumen?
In his epistle to Pahoran (Alma 60:7), Moroni accused the chief judge of sitting upon his throne in this state.
What is a thoughtless stupor?
In Alma 42:8, Alma told Corianton that preventing temporal death would 'destroy the great plan' of this.
What is happiness?
According to 2 Nephi 5:28-30, Nephi made the small plates this many years after Lehi's family left Jerusalem.
What is thirty years?
'Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing' (Moroni 7:46).
Who is Mormon?